Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows the largest stadium by capacity by State in the United States. Overall, there are 429 stadiums in the United States with a capacity of over 10,000 people.
Collectively they could hold just 13.5 million people or the entire population of Pennsylvania and Wyoming combined.
Here’s a bit more about them:
The map above shows how big the biggest stadium is by capacity by country. Below we look at some of the stats around these stadiums.
The map above shows which English Premier League Football Club is closest to you based on driving times.
Newcastle and Bournemouth cover huge swaths of England, whereas London teams like Arsenal, Fulham and especially Chelsea cover only a small section of the capital.
Here’s a full list of teams, including their home stadium and capacity
The video above shows the evolution of France’s borders between 985 and 1947, when it finally arrived at the boarders it still has in 2025.
Here are some of the major key dates:
The map above shows how Google Maps is now labelling the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) depending on where you live.
If you live in the United States, it’s now just the Gulf of America.
If you live in the UK it’s how written how I’ve written this post, Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).
And finally if you’re in Mexico it’s still just the Gulf of Mexico.
You can see maps for each below:
The map above shows the Diomede Islands where the distance between the Russia on Big Diomede Island and The United States on Little Diomede Island is just over 2 miles.
They are also on opposite sides of the International Date line, although the Russian side is just 21 hours ahead of the United States rather than 24 because of how they’ve chosen to adopt Time Zones.
But this does mean when it’s 1am on Monday morning on the Russian side, it’s just 4am Sunday morning on the American side.
More about the islands.
The map above shows an unintuitive geographical fact.
If you’re in Windsor, Ontario, Canada and want to visit Detroit on the US side of the border, you head north rather than south as you’d expect.
The video above is a sped up version of the following video showing the The Reconquista: Every Year.
The video above shows the rise and now fall of Japan’s population by prefecture between 1920 and 2020. Japan’s population today is still 125% higher than it was a century ago, but as is well known has started to decline in recent years.
The maps and video are all the work of Wikimedia users Monaneko and Pekachu.
Here are the numbers:
